UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION TASK TEAM V - BIOGRAPHICS WORKING GROUP ON NAME FINDING ACTIVITIES MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING, 20 MAY 1965

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 7, 1965
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U N I T E D S T A T E S I N T E L L I G E N C E B 0 A R D
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
Task Team V - Biographies
Working Group on Name Finding Activities
Minutes of the First Meeting, 20 May 1965
Members or Their Reresentatives
NSA
CIA
DIA -
STATE a- Mr. Mitchell Stanley
SS
CSS
1. In accordance with the- instructions of the Chairman of Task Team
V, called this working group meeting to consider the name
finding activities of interest to the Team and to develop whatever
additional facts might be useful for the Team report.
2. As guests of CODIB Task Team III, the group was briefed by members
of ATD concerning the White Stork operation in general and the cross
check pro ram at the Library of Congress as well as the TIPS activity at
in particular. The Team was additionally briefed on the
projec now being worked on by SDC. Members of Task Team V desiring
additional information about these systems may avail themselves of the
tape recording which is available from the CODIB Support Staff.
3. After the briefing, the Chairman opened the meeting by referring
to the material available bearing on this subject in the SCIPS report.
As a result of this conversation, the members agreed to reacquaint them-
selves with the pertinent details of this report, particularly pages
59 through 70 of Volume II, which was provided all Task Team V members
some months ago by the Secretary. Several members of the working group
were also provided, after the meeting, copies of SCIPS Report Volumes I
and V for their retention.
GROUP I
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification.
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4. The Team considered what is now available in the way of a list-
ing of the biographic holdings within the Intelligence Community. In
response to this question, the Secretary provided the working group
members with a summary sheet of the fourteen major positive intelligence
biographic files which are filed by names alphabetically and which range
from a size The list also
contained the seven arges holdings o positive biographic intelligence
files that ran a from the largest to the smallest at 25X1A
These entries were extracted from a larger listing
of approximately 185 file holdings identified during the SCIPS fact
gathering activities. The group agreed that the extended listing of these
files would certainly be of use to the group although it was pointed out
by the Secretary that the information is already two years old. The
Secretary was asked to prepare this extended listing for the use of the
group.
5. The Chairman next raised the question as to what has happened
to the Committee for the Exploitation, Foreign Language Publication, a
CODIB-sponsored group which had been meeting until a year or so ago to
exchange information in this field. The reason that the Chairman raised
this was that recently certain organizational elements in the FDD unilaterally
decided to stop collecting information on personalities from certain
foreign publication sources on military rank lower than colonel grade in
contrast to the prior policy of collecting biographic information on field
grade and above military personalities. The point was that a working
group operated in this area might have surfaced this decision before
it was made final to the detriment of other sister record keeping activities.
6. The group next focused on the problem of defining the problems
in this area. Means for discovering these were discussed. The suggestion
was to monitor a few typical requests to see what each organization could
produce. It was not clear what a "typical request" might really be.
The group was asked by the Chairman to consider the general problem of
the groups and come to the next meeting prepared to discuss this in more
detail.
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